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American Media Drums Up Support for War … Again

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American Media Drums Up Support for War … Again

Even After Mea Culpas For Horrible Iraq War Coverage, American Media Does the Same Thing With Iran

The American people are being bombarded with messages that Iran will launch an attack unless it is bombed.

For example, this is a top AP headline from today:

Iran1 American Media Drums Up Support for War ... Again

The headline is being parroted by virtually every media outlet:

Iran 1b American Media Drums Up Support for War ... Again

Iran 1a American Media Drums Up Support for War ... Again

Only upon a closer reading of the AP article can we see what Iran actually said:
Clipboard02 American Media Drums Up Support for War ... AgainIn other words, Iran is saying if you attack us first, we’ll fight back.

That’s a little bit different from the misleading headline … isn’t it? As I noted in August, this is the old bully’s trick of pretending he is the victim:

Police have recently stated on the record that:

Indeed, in modern America, even being worried that the government is acting in a bullying manner can literally get one arrested, committed to a psychiatric ward or labeled as a terrorist.

 

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In other words, the government is using the age-old bully’s trick: pretending that the victim is the attacker, and the bully is merely defending himself.

 

The same is true in terms of our foreign policy. For example, when we accidentally kill foreigners, we pretend that they were armed or pretend that they were “militants”.

 

The government invaded Iraq because it claimed Saddam had weapons of mass destruction and that he had a hand in 9/11 … but everyone knew that both claims were false.

In fact, the American media is always pro-war, and happily trumpets disinformation about supposed enemies to drum up support for new wars. Indeed, some think that war is fun.

The people pushing for war against Iran are the same people who pushed for war against Iraq … and said it would be a “cakewalk”.

But even after all of the mea culpas for their horrible Iraq coverage – by the New York Times, Washington Post, MSNBC and others – the media are doing the exact same thing with Iran.

Israel Versus Iran: What’s REALLY Going On …

 

The Conflict Only Makes Sense With Historical Perspective

Israeli prime minister Netanyahu and Iranian president Ahmadinejad both seem like hotheads. Israel and Iran are making fiery accusations against each other. There have been religious wars in the Middle East for thousands of years (think Crusades) ... are we drifting towards WWIII? What's really going on? It is only apparent when you learn the historical context:

  • The people pushing for war against Iran are the same people who pushed for war against Iraq, and said it would be a “cakewalk”. See this and this
  • In 2002, for example, Israeli prime minister Netanyahu helped convince the American Congress that Saddam was making weapons of mass destruction:

(Of course, American intelligence already knew that Saddam didn't really possess WMDs. And see this.)

  • The CIA admits that the U.S. overthrew the secular, moderate, suit-and-tie-wearing, Democratically-elected prime minister of Iran in 1953. He was overthrown because he had nationalized Iran's oil, which had previously been controlled by BP and other Western oil companies. As part of that action, the CIA admits that it hired Iranians to pose as Communists and stage bombings in Iran in order to turn the country against its prime minister
  • If the U.S. hadn't overthrown the moderate Iranian government, the fundamentalist Mullahs would have never taken over. (Moreover, the U.S. has had a large hand in strengthening radical Islam in the Middle East by supporting radicals to fight the Soviets and others)
  • The U.S. armed and supported Iraq after it invaded Iran and engaged in a long, bloody war which included the use of chemical weapons. Here is former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld meeting with Saddam Hussein in the 1980's, several months after Saddam had used chemical weapons in a massacre:

  • Hotheads within the U.S. and Israeli have been claiming for more than 30 years that Iran was on the verge of nuclear capability
  • The U.S. actually helped fund Iran's nuclear program

  • The decision to threaten to bomb Iran was made before 9/11

Postscript: Top American and Israeli military and intelligence officials say:

  • Despite its heated rhetoric – Iran is a “rational actor”. For example, in 2011, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper testified before Congress that “we continue to judge Iran’s nuclear decision-making is guided by a cost-benefit approach.” In February 2012, General Ron Burgess, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, told Congress that “the agency assesses Iran is unlikely to initiate or provoke a conflict.” Also in February, General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said: “We are of the opinion that Iran is a rational actor”

And despite the fact that Iran is a Muslim country, it actually treats Jews and Christians pretty well ... much better than close U.S. ally Saudi Arabia.

 

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Fri, 09/28/2012 - 23:17 | 2840965 indygo55
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I think you mean the Zionists. Makmadinerjacket doesn't hate Jews. 

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 22:48 | 2840910 George Washington
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Hey Sansnobel, I'd love to see some Megaphone (you know, these guys) - or similar - alerts about ZeroHedge.  Can you share any?

In the meantime, from the top :)

How do you know whether I am Jewish or not?

Finally, any post criticizing specific policies of  specific Israeli administrations draws an influx of trolls who THEMSELVES sling anti-semitism around in an attempt to tar and feather the whole site.  This happens on any website in the world which criticizes Israeli policies.

There may be some actual anti-semitic racism - which I strongly condemn - but many of those slinging the worst insults are

Examples of any post criticizing Israeli policy: see this, this and this.

P.S. I am against any religion being unfairly blamed for terrorism.

For example, Christianity is not responsible for terrorism, even though the Norwegian shooter claimed to be a devout Christian, millions of the most radical types of , rogue U.S. military leaders want to start a nuclear war to wipe out Islam, a FEMA trainer implies that Christians are crazy radicals prone to terrorism, and polls show that Christians are more prone to use violence than Muslims.

And you can't blame all Christians for the Crusades ...

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 23:45 | 2841002 sansnobel
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Yeah yeah yeah, George I gathered that.  You know I'm just baiting.  Just trying to rouse people and have some fun.   I am not Jewish and I don't work for the Pentagon or any other government agency....well at least not anymore I don't.  I just feel like the record needs to be set straight that there are some good Jews and some bad ones.  Just like the Gentiles. I try to deal with people as individuals as much as possible.   The warmongering bad types are presently in power and have been for a long time.  There are some fucking crazy musloids that need to have their asses handed to them as well.  But I will take any Jew or Muslim and beat him to within an inch of his life if he or she ever throws any racial superiority shit to my face.  Some of these morons are a little too sure of themselves.  As with any group of people they need their ass beaten vigorously every once in a while to bring a little humility back to their life.  I hate violence, but sometimes it is the only way to get through to people.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 22:31 | 2840889 dizzyfingers
Fri, 09/28/2012 - 22:17 | 2840860 tony bonn
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this war is exactly why i declare indonesian barry soetoro a mass murderer who is the bush clone doing the bidding of the rockefeller axis of evil.....the state run media (that's all of it) will bellow forth with arrogant lies to incite war......they think that this one will be a splendid little war like the previous ones.....but i have news, iran will play an important role in the middle east and survive america's wanton aggression.....just as rome failed to conquor the parthians, so too will the neothugs fails to conquor iran......

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 22:52 | 2840923 alien-IQ
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why don't you and others like you stop hiding behind this phony righteous indignation of his being an Indonesian or a Muslim or a Socialist or from fucking outer space and just admit that you don't like hm because he's a nigger.

just fucking say it already.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 22:59 | 2840935 akak
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Just because Barry is a nigger is no real reason to dislike him.

There are literally THOUSANDS of much better reasons to loathe that statist bastard and puppet.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 23:49 | 2841017 sansnobel
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Wait a minute I thought he was an honorary nigger because Jessssseeeeee Jackson said he wasn't black enough. wtf...???

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 22:16 | 2840855 BigInJapan
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I say let them go at it. Israel and Iran, I mean.

Not my war.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 23:54 | 2841028 sansnobel
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Well If you live in Amerika it will be. 

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 23:30 | 2840981 alien-IQ
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They should settle their difference by break-dance fighting. I'd shell out $50 to see that on pay-per-view.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 22:08 | 2840838 Arnold Ziffel
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War is Big Money, Big Bonuses and Big profits.

 

Bankers love war.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 23:34 | 2840988 alien-IQ
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A terrific scene in the film "The International" sums it up beautifully:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KvzuDbG-TQ

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 09:42 | 2841377 ArmchairRevolut...
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Great clip!

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 21:53 | 2840787 Divine Wind
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Wow George.

A whole lot of Jew hatin goin on here. Thanks dude.

Have a bad experience with them?

Get smoked by one with more business prowess and / or business connections?

What a dick.

 

 

 

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 06:11 | 2841247 bunnyswanson
Fri, 09/28/2012 - 23:17 | 2840966 sansnobel
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You mean like the Banking Jew  cartel that own us all ?  Wow, they have some wonderful business acumen don't they?  Well let's just think of some of those enlightend individuals shall we?  Blankfein, Rubin, Bernanke, Greenspan...should I continue?  What do you mean business connections?  You see Business is not supposed to be government....Or did they fill your head with all that fascist nonsense where you went to school?

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 02:46 | 2841182 Bringin It
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When the Ponzi is rising, they're all geniuses, like The Maestro.

When the Ponzi collapses they aren't.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 22:28 | 2840881 George Washington
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How do you know whether I am Jewish or not?

Finally, any post criticizing specific policies of  specific Israeli administrations draws an influx of trolls who THEMSELVES sling anti-semitism around in an attempt to tar and feather the whole site.  This happens on any website in the world which criticizes Israeli policies.

There may be some actual anti-semitic racism - which I strongly condemn - but many of those slinging the worst insults are

Examples of any post criticizing Israeli policy: see this, this and this.

P.S. I am against any religion being unfairly blamed for terrorism.

For example, Christianity is not responsible for terrorism, even though the Norwegian shooter claimed to be a devout Christian, millions of the most radical types of , rogue U.S. military leaders want to start a nuclear war to wipe out Islam, a FEMA trainer implies that Christians are crazy radicals prone to terrorism, and polls show that Christians are more prone to use violence than Muslims.

And you can't blame all Christians for the Crusades ...

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 22:56 | 2840932 Sparkey
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I love this site Goerge, some of the greatest Sophists English has ever known, come here and their word craft is a marvel!

(Everyone posts for the fun of it, no minds are changed here, each one has their unique World view to defend/promote and surely that is good,,,Still,,, if the S*** really does hit the fan, there won't be any who escape un scathed, that in cludes the man with the drawing). I really don't think anyone will "Win" it all, all losing  it all is much more likely, why are we testing the periphery of madness again?)

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 23:32 | 2840984 RichardP
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... no minds are changed here ...

That has not been true of me.  I'm guessing it hasn't been true of others.  This forum has the world's ear.  I think folks post here for reasons other than just for the fun of it.  This has been an effective place for cultures to educate each other about themselves.

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 00:06 | 2841055 SubjectivObject
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I agree, my mind's been changed lots through the ZH portal.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 22:56 | 2840930 alien-IQ
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you can't use logic on those who scream "anti-semite" every time somebody points out a flaw about Israel.

it's a waste of time.

when anybody asks me "are you an anti-semite"...my stock reply is "of course I am...isn't everybody?"

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 02:39 | 2841179 Bringin It
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Alien I refuse to acknowledge the twited semantics, designed to give legitimacy to the ethnic cleansers, implying they are Semites. And as we all now know,they're not.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 22:11 | 2840844 Nikao7
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Going by the posts I see from you on the hedge your name is very deceiving.  Maybe you should change it to Flatulence...Divine Flatulence....  or possibly just Ass Wind?

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 22:10 | 2840843 Ima anal sphincter
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Divine Wind......What a dick.

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 02:31 | 2841174 Bringin It
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^Devine Wind - another fraud. Like in the movie Beau Geste, they keep propping dead bodies up on the ramprarts to make the appearance of wide support.

Back at GIYUS command central: 'OK we're gonna need a Mexican, an Italian and an Asian.' GringoV, Cosimo and Devine.

Btw - Devine Wind is English for the Japanese term Kamakhazi.  The picture used is from the Chinese terra cotta army.  No Japanese would choose the Chinese picture and no Chinese would choose the Japanese term.  So, just who is this guy?

Best guess = Richardp

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 02:40 | 2841180 RichardP
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Bringin It - I do enjoy your sense of humor.

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 01:02 | 2841118 Cosimo de Medici
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With a self-selected name like "Ima anal sphincter", I'm going to assume you're an expert and just take your word for it.

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 00:13 | 2841059 SubjectivObject
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Yes, a certified G odd complex there.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 21:50 | 2840779 Cycling Fish
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By my calculation Bibi has until oct 22 2013 to start a war in the middle east. If Obama is re- elected America will not participate and Israel can't do the thing on its own.

That cuts bibis window to November 2012 because Obama needs Jewish support to be re-elected perhaps until week Two of October.

Hence bibis window closes very soon. That is why the media and commentariat, taking orders from AIPAC and RICHARDP's friends are foaming at the mouth about Iran right now.

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 05:57 | 2841242 falak pema
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desperate times in Las Vegas MIC. The wheel turns. 

Once the hand has writ...there is no going back. 

 

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it

-- Omar Khayyam

Do you think Bibi reads pharsi, or english poetry?

Something the whole world knows : 80 % of our assets are in fiat. 80% of third world assets are in hard commodities.

Guess who has the upper hand! 

Its all about OIL not about Nuclear false flag. 

 

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 20:33 | 2842389 RichardP
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Something the whole world knows : 80 % of our assets are in fiat. 80% of third world assets are in hard commodities.

In sheer volume and value, how does our 20% in hard commodities compare with the third world's 80% in hard commodities?  I'm thinking they are still greater, but I don't have access to statistics to see whether I'm correct or not.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 23:21 | 2840971 RichardP
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... taking orders from AIPAC and RICHARDP's friends ...

If you carefully read what I say - I'm generally addressing the lack of logic in what someone says, or adding a material fact that has been left out (a version of calling the conversation back to logic).  If you look at what I actually say, you would be hard-pressed to prove that I take sides politically.

Hence bibis window closes very soon.

I think you are right on that, and I think the window will close without Bibi dropping any bombs.  The real work is being done in the area of sabatoge.  That will continue.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 23:34 | 2840983 Bicycle Repairman
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"The real work is being done in the area of sabotage.  That will continue."

Sabotage and sanctions have been going on for some time.  If Netanyahu is taken at his word, you'd have to believe that these things have been ineffective.

Whether the ultimate goal is nuclear power or nuclear weapons, it is clear to all that Iran has made steady progress.

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 01:00 | 2841117 RichardP
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As documented here:

http://www.iranwatch.org/ourpubs/articles/iranucleartimetable.html

But I think the progress would have been faster if not for the sabotage.

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 07:46 | 2841290 Bicycle Repairman
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"But I think the progress would have been faster if not for the sabotage."

No doubt, but tick tock tick tock......

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 20:27 | 2842379 RichardP
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RIP Stevie Ray Vaughn

Tick Tock indeed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLs5REzFvOY

 

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 21:57 | 2840806 Bicycle Repairman
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Given the two elections in a month or so, Israel's window could very well close permanently.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 21:42 | 2840743 Heyoka Bianco
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If the Iranian leaders are in fact willing to spend their entire nation in order elimanate Israel, all this hoohaw makes sense (in the "rational player" game, at least). If they have even the remotest contact with reality, the cost, even with nukes, is prohibitively high, and any "pre-emptive" strike (what a wonderful turn of phase to turn "attack" into "self-defense, IN THE FUTURE!") is completely counter-productive, even criminal.

With Nate the Clown!

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 23:15 | 2840961 RichardP
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If the Iranian leaders are in fact willing to spend their entire nation in order elimanate Israel ...

President Ahmadinejad spent the first few minutes of his time in front of his U.N. audience this past week educating them again about the return of the twelfth Imam (the speech is on the Internet).  He has the ear of the entire world, and this is what he chooses to talk about.  If he truely believes what he says, the destruction of Israel is not an end in itself, but a means to the end of bringing the twelfth Imam back.  For those who believe they can bring the Imam back, spending their entire nation would probably be an acceptable price to pay - because they believe their reward would be greater than what they spent.

If you don't know this Imam story, it will be next to impossible to correctly interpret the events that are taking place now regarding Iran and Israel and the U.S.

There is information all over the Internet to help you learn the story if you need it.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 21:29 | 2840716 nah
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the thin red line bitchez

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 21:23 | 2840696 Bicycle Repairman
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The latest idiotic meme of the day to come from "Propaganda Central" and be disseminated through multiple media outlets is Obama = Neville Chamberlain.  Fortunately the kids don't know Neville Chamberlain from Wilt Chamberlain.  Propaganda Central is going to need to update their BS.

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 11:20 | 2841493 Winston Churchill
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Hey, Neville got a bad rap.

Without the extra 18 months time he bought by sacrificing Czecho-Slovakia.we would

all be speaking German right now, and shouting Seig Heil at each other.

Britain was in no state to take on Adolf then,but used the extra wisely.

Chamberlin's actions were correct, if maybe for the wrong reasons.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 21:21 | 2840689 davood
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Most if not all US media is owned and controlled by billionaire Jews, so it is a given that they are drumming for war.  Matt Drudge is a Jew.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 21:28 | 2840705 George Washington
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I don't think ABC, CBS, NBC or Fox are controlled by people of Jewish descent. I think they are owned by the military-industrial complex (e.g. Westinghouse and GE own alot of MSM), who profit DIRECTLY from war ...

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 23:04 | 2840942 alien-IQ
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Perhaps that is a topic that you might want to consider doing some more research on for a future article.

You might be surprised by what you find.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 22:07 | 2840836 davood
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Some of the following information is probably out of date, i.e., the Jewish controlling interests, but one gets the idea that for a population of only 1-2% of the U.S., they the Jews sure own alot of real estate in the media.  I call the following "The Coincidence Theory  of Jews."

Jews in U.S. Media

 

7 Jews collectively control ABC, NBC, CBS, the Turner Broadcasting System, CNN, MTV, Universal Studios, MCA Records, Geffen Records, DGC Records, GRP Records, Rising Tide Records, Curb/Universal Records, and Interscope Records.

 

Walt Disney Company

Michael Eisner, former chairman of the board and former CEO

Time Warner

Gerald Levin, chairman of the board and CEO

Viacom, Inc

Sumner Redstone (born Murray Rothstein), chairman of the board and CEO

General Electric

Dennis Dammerman, Vice Chairman

Dream Works (SKG)

Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and David Geffen

MCA and Universal Pictures

Owned by Seagram Company, Ltd., president and CEO, Edgar Bronfman Jr. (also president of the World Jewish Congress)

Sony Corporation of America

Michael Schulhof, president and CEO

 

News Corporation Limited

Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and CEO, his mother is Elisabeth Joy Greene.

Peter Chernin, President and Co-COO

ABC controlled by Leonard Goldenson

Executive Producers: Victor Neufeld (20-20), Bob Reichbloom (Good Morning America), and Rick Kaplan (World News Tonight)

CBS controlled by William Paley and then by Lawrence Tisch

CBS News, president, Eric Ober

NBC controlled by David Sarnoff and then by his son Robert Sarnoff

NBC News, president, Andrew Lack

Jeff Zucker, president and CEO, NBC Universal

Executive Producers: Jeff Zucker (Today), Jeff Gralnick (NBC Nightly News), and Neal Shapiro (Dateline)

 

The New York Times (1 million weekly circulation)

Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr., publisher and CEO

Max Frankel, executive editor

Joseph Lelyveld, managing editor

The Wall Street Journal

Peter Kann, chairman and CEO of Dow Jones & Company

The Washington Post Company (3.2 million weekly circulation)

Katherine Meyer Graham, former principal stockholder, former board chairman

Donald E. Graham, publisher, president, CEO, board chairman

U.S. News & World Report (2.3 million weekly circulation)

Mortimer Zuckerman, owner and publisher

 

Jews of Hollywood

 

How Jewish is Hollywood? (written by Joel Stein, a Jew)

News Corp. President Peter Chernin (Jewish)

Paramount Pictures Chairman Brad Grey (Jewish)

Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Robert Iger (Jewish)

Sony Pictures Chairman Michael Lynton (Dutch Jew)

Warner Bros. Chairman Barry Meyer (Jewish)

CBS Corp. Chief Executive Leslie Moonves (so Jewish his great uncle was first Israeli PM)

MGM Chairman Harry Sloan (Jewish)

NBC Universal Chief Executive Jeff Zucker (mega-Jewish)


Sat, 09/29/2012 - 01:14 | 2841128 Cosimo de Medici
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Perhaps if you spent half as much time trying to make something of yourself, rather than researching excuses why you're a failure, you might have your own media company by now.  Some Arabs wanted to express a particular point of view, so they started al Jazeera.  Some Russians wanted to express a particular point of view so they started RT.  A Bulgarian immigrant banned for life from the financial industry wanted to express a particular point of view, so he started Zerohedge.   Work hard and you gain the right to try to influence opinion according to your particular point of view.  Spend your life looking for excuses, and you'll remain the bitter and finger-pointing failure you are.  From the looks of things, however (up votes), you'll have plenty of company ever ready for a reach around, which is probably all you really want.

Sat, 09/29/2012 - 02:14 | 2841165 Bringin It
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Why do you call yourself Cosimo de Medici?

Was Cosimo a secret AIPAC donor in his day?

Or is it a disgiuse? like the gringoV?

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